Sisters in the wilderness: The lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray

CHARLOTTE GRAY is a well-known Canadian author who has written 10 critically acclaimed works of literary non-fiction. The Promise of Canada--150 Years: People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Nation is her most recent blockbuster. Her best-selling novel The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shook the Nation won the Toronto Novel Prize, the Heritage Toronto Book Award, the Canadian Writers Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History, and the Arthur Ellis Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Crime Book. The RBC Taylor Prize, the Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Evergreen Award were all shortlisted, and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was longlisted. A television miniseries based on her best-selling novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike was shown.

Charlotte Gray, an adjunct research professor in Carleton University's history department, received the Pierre Berton Prize for excellent contribution in popularizing Canadian history. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada.